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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26

entered in 1857. His pulpit eloquence ac-
counted for his remarkably rapid rise to the
bishopric The foreign work which be was
selected by his conferences to do was a rather
difficult undertaking. He left this country
in June last, and spent several months in
China and Japan. In China he organized a
conference of the missions of his church. He
viii impress among the people of the south
the need of more help in the mission fields. He
was treated with great courtesy in both japan
ana China. Il believe" he says, that in
twenty years from now the Mikado of Japan
will openly declare in favor of Christianity.
I'm regard to the two nations, l think the
japanese, while more brilliant and progress
sive than their conservative neighbors, are
shallow, and are not nearly as thorough in
their work and thought" Bishop Wilson
made tour through the Holy Land and up
the Nile He is in excellent health.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26
THE SOLDIER.

on one arm and studying intently the broad
page of book The face is good portrait
of Garfield as he looked when IS or 90.
There is a great deal of boldness in the
way Mr.. Ward has treated his subject.
Gen. Sheridan said when he saw the pho
tographS from which the accompanying
sketches were made: "The Society for the
Prevention of Vice may object to the students
unclad legs" But there is soberness and dig
nity in the figure and it is a very pleasing
work. Historically, the youth is neither
Roman nor Greek. A random guess would
make him out to be Anglo Saxon. But this
would not be correct. Mr.. Ward has gone
further and presented study of Welsh
youth of the time of the Conquest. Garfield
ALWAYS dwelt with fondness on his Cambrian
ancestry and took pride in it.
The figure of the soldier, second in the
series is perhaps the best of the trio. 1t
pictures a half savage warrior aroused from
rest by the sudden sound of the approaching
enemy. The figure is that of stalwart man
in early prime clad in skins laced down to
legs and body by inter crossing thongs. On
his head is a rude helmet; beneath him
shield. One leg is crossed over the other
gracefully. The head is raised high and the
attitude is that of listening and planning a
method of resistance. Here, also, Mr.. Ward
has made use of Cambrian models OF dress
and mold of physiognomy. There Is great
strength in the soldier, and the manly beauty
of the face is something to command en-
tbusiacfir DraiSe
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26

GEORGE, DUKE OF CAM der is two months
BhIDGE. older than the
queen, who is his first cousin. His early life
was spent at Hanover, where his father
acted as viceroy until 1887, and afterwards at
Berlin. AS disciplinarian he is a Martin ct,
and his English has decided German accent.
By the portrait one would suppose that he
ran to width, rather than height Not so.
He is tall and only proportionately wide "a
finely built old man" is what they say of him.
His hair and whiskers are white his face is a
good British red, and bis neck is constructed
on the apOplectic plan. Good living" is the
legend which can be read all over him.
Traces of the hardships of war are not dis
covered on his person. The only time he dis
played his prowess on a battlefield was in the
Crimea, where he was not wanting in cour-
age, but as a leader rather got off his base.
He has bluff, sea captainish hearty, how
are-you, me boy, manner to his equals. but
he can storm like pirate at delinquent sol
diery. good cigar pleases him, so does a
good dinner. Pretty and pleasant women
are not disagreeable to him, neither is a good
nap after meals. Somebody, wholly un-
prejudiced of course, said of him, "He is q
good kind of an honest old fellow who at
times is guilty of the most pig headed OBJ
stinacy and prejudice"
Like some of our own military heroes he is
also famed in love. He was a conuuerine
hero in cupid's domain earlier in life. After
many love affairs he contracted a morgan
attic marriage with an estimable women who
is not at all known to society, by whom he
has large family. Two of his sons are in
his official staff, while another has dstin-
guished himself in the naval service.
The rubicund field marshal is one of the
most popular members of the royal family.
He has his faults, but he has always been
loyal, and nobody can say aught against him.
His mother is the venerable Duchess of Cam
bridge, and every day the field marshal
walks round to st. James palace and spends
half an hour with her.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26
Embryo Co1ored Statesmen.

An old colored woman stood at the station
Yesterday, waiting for the Jacksonville train.
Beside her stood two little pickaninnies with
faces as black as the inside of a stove pipe.
When the old mammals train arrived she ex-
claimed: "Bress de Lor Y and then looking
down at Eer children, remarked: Here, you,
Abraham Lincoln, take hold of jeff Davis
hand and come along heah, quick" And the
namesakes of the two great statesmen of the
war Joined hands and walked away together
as though their names had not expressed such
a dissimilarity of purpose. .-Palatka Fla)
Herald.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26

to think of Washington then and now.
There was almost no chance for an
artist or sculptor then. The city was
as little like itself now as can
be imagined. Filthy streets, barren park
spaces, dingy public buildings, a half fin
nished Capitol, and no fit place for a satue
even if Michael Angelo had come fresh from
the Inferno to make one. About the only
statues to be seen were the bronze jefferson
in front of the White House, Clark Mills
equestrian Jackson in Lafayette square and
Greenougb's Washington, which was then
squat on the ground under a rough she'd east
of the Capitol. Now, there are so many
statues and monuments in Washington that
it took a year to find the site for Wards Gar
field, and the friends of Gen. Logan and Gen.
Grant wonder where statues of these generals
are to stand
The statue of Garfield is unlike any other
in Washington, having three heroic bronze
figures on the pedestal. intended as allegorical
representations of the most important periods
in Garfield's life. Thus it is not merely a
portrait as the statues of other presidents, but
in its composite character tells the story of
American life-hOw the boy who was brought
up on a farm enriched his mind with knowl-
edge when war came fought WELL and in ma
tura life gave counsel TO the nation as a
statesman.
Those who have seen the bronze allegorical
figures on the Garfield statue look upon them
as the best features of the work. The por-
trait Of the dead president is excellent, and
the sculptor has put a great deal of energy
into the pose. But the majority of people
prefer allegories to portraits, and for this
reason far more study will be given to the
pedestal than to the statue. First in sequence
and occupying the foreground of the statue
is the figure of youth. 1t represents young
man half nude, clad in a sheepskin, reclining
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26

GEN. s. 3. BUCkNER. When the heroic
deeds of Gen. Bolivar, the washington of
South America" excited so much enthusiasm
in this country, the young Buckner received
his name and seems to have partaken some
what of his nature Almost from the day he
reached manhood he was prominent figure
in Kentucky As general of the so called
State troops of the early days of 1861, he led
a brigade of them when they entered the
Confederate service; and the fact that it was
his misfortune to be in command when Fort
DonelSon surrendered did not long lessen his
popularitv. Gen. Buckner is a man of wealth
and unusually happy in his domestic rela-
tions He has never taken very active part
in politics, and this is one instance where the
office persistently sought the man.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26
SUNDAY SCHOOL ERA.
A Monument Proposed to the American
Eounler

Founder.
Brooklyn, N. Y, modestly claims to be the
parent city of Sunday schools in the United
States-that is, the first American COM
munity to take kindly to the plan of Robert
Raikes; and a movement is now afoot to
commemorate the fact by the erection of
monument to Robert Snow, who established
the first Sunday school III Brooklyn, and may
therefore be considered the founder of the
system in America. 1t is a fact that comes
with surprise to many people now, that the
Sunday school was not at first favored in
stitution among Christians. Indeed, many
entire congregations, and individuals in
other congregations, looked upon it as
doubtful innovation; and when Father Snow,
as he was usually called, proposed to inaugu-
rate the English system of Robert Raikes
here, he was peremptorily refused the use of
one or two churches and not very warmly
welcomed in others. The record and the
memory of the old people indicate that the
word school" had something to do with this
opposition; and as soon as people found what
it really was they accepted it as an aid to tho
church
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26
THE QUEEN OF HAWAII.

Daughter Of brown chiefs from over the seas,
KapiOlani!
Tawnv checked queen Of the soft Polynese,
Who eat of the taro and live at their ease;
Hail and good day to your majesty, please,
kapiOlani!
Sprung from the strain of many a chief
Who padded and swan by the coral reef,
Hail, for the Yankees hold thee lief,
Kapiolauif
How fares thy glorious consort, King Dave,
Kapiolani?
Big is the throat of Oahu's big brave,
Big be the flask his grief which shall lave,
He will drink to your health while you're over
the wave.
Eapiolanil
let dark Kalakaua for sorrow carouse,
KapiOlanil
Let him bind the dank cloth of remorse ON his
brows;
The head it is his, hut the wisdom's his frau's;
Did it chance that in Frisco you met with King
Claus.
Kapiolani'
Thou comest from slopes of old Mauna Kea,
From fire hearted Mauna Loa sheer,
From craters that fill the island with fear,
From reefs where the surf foams up like beer,
kapiolanii
With all kindly words of the voice and the pen,
kapOanil
We bid you be welcome and welcome again.
Sweet bread fruit of royalty, Pacifc's pearl when
VIII you come to this town and see the Sandwich
men, 81 s-r
KapiOlaui1
Hawali's bright daughter, touch hand and hand,
kapiolanil
Blithe be your journeys in this Yankee land;
Soft shine the MONDAY lest you be tanned,
Soft skip the zephyrs that you may be famed;
You're fond of ice cream? You'll find America
grand
Oh. Kapiolani! New York Sun.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26

Omaha Widow should greatly like to
meet your wife, Mr.. De Sweet
Mr. De Sweet have no wife
Il can sympathize with you. You too have
lost"-
II never was married"
"Ohi You are engaged though, 1 presume,
and"-
II have never been engaged madam"
"Ah l begin to understand. Some sad
romance Of the past has left its mark upon
your heart so deep that
mo, no. have never been in love. l
would not tie myself down to a woman if she
were sent down from heaven to men
"Mercy A woman haterl Ohl What
could have so perverted your nature! What
has happened to-
Il am dry goods clerk. Omaha World
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26
4 Fair Valuation.

Lawyer Ito client)-You want to sue Rob
inson for $500 for libel, you say!
Client-Yes; he has blasted my character
forever.
Lawyer = You think $500 the proper
amount
Client-Well, make it $3.50. l only want
what's rght-Harper's Bazaar.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26
Songs without Words.

1t is an affecting spectacle, a deaf and
dumb school on commencement day, singing
We Never Speak as We Pass By" with their
fingers and thumbs We can't remember to
have ever heard such sight, but from all
accounts-should there be any such accounts
eXtant-it must be one Of the most pathetic
scenes you ever listened to-Burdette.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26
Helena, Montana, Thursday, May 26, 1887

The statesman sits, looking directly in front,
holding in one hand a tablet, the other poised
as if in gesture of explanation. The form
is draped artisticaly in the toga, or an equiva-
lent robe 1t is certainly fine composition,
and rounds out excellently the three ideas in
tended to be expressed by the pedestal figures.
The lower bronzes are eight feet in length
while the statue OF Garfield is ten feet six
inches. They rest on buttresses standing out
from the low cylindrical shaft OF Quincy
granite which forms the pedestal.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26
Pound in a Medicine Chest.

Oh. come with the roses and summer caloric,
With scents from the woodland and sewer and
sea;
gring with me pain killer, pills. paregoric,
turkish rhubarb, quinine and the anemone;
,rooe ev ~ valley and meadow in beauty,
W, mi'h remedies herby and medicines rooty,
Whatever your trouble I've something to suit We
tor am the summer time-carol with me.
-Burdette.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26
An Optical Delusion.

British Naval Ohicer-I have heard good
deal about your American torpedoes, but l
never saw one before.
American Naval Officer-You have better
eyes than | have if you can see one now.
There is one off starboard; you must be
near sighted"
Great st. Perry! sir; that's man of
war.m-Omaha World.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26
The Unappreciative West.

New York Girl-And you really were
guest at the castle of an English lords
Omaha Man-Yes, 1 happened to have
business with him in connection with a land
syndicate you know
GLOW lovely it must have been. And you
really dined and slept in an old baronial
castle!'
"Oh, yes"
1T must be the very brightest page in your
memory, isn't it"
"Well, didn't catch cold and didn't get
bitten. Omaha World.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26
TRANSPORTING TROOPS.

the ground by pegs driven through holes at
each end, which prevent the track from shift
ing, Rivers and ravines may be crossed by
piers, or the latter by inclines and it is
claimed that across deep mountain gorges the
track may be carried on wire cables, two or
more parallel, to which the fiat ties or other
bases of the A-shaped trestles are made fast.
And finally, it is claimed that grades as steep
as one foot in seventeen may be used for all
kinds of transportation, and somewhat sleeper
for the lighter kinds
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26
The CITY of Refuge.

Teacher lin a Sunday school classl-Can
any of you tell me where the City of Refuge
is.
Small Boy-I Bnow-my mother told me
all about it.
Teacher-Well, Johnny, where is it,
Small Boy-Ive forgotten the name of the
place, but it's where Cousin Bob and those
other defaulters have gone to.-New York
Tribune
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26
Heroic Treatment.

The cashier of a Chinese bank tried to leave
with the funds for Japan or some place
on the American plan the other day, but it is
not believed that the custom will become
popular The government walled up the
cashier in a cell to starve to death and
chopped off the heads of all his family. And
next fall they are going to decapitate every
body in the empire bearing his name.-Dakota
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26
All the difference in the World.

'No, SIR" thundered the old gentleman, II
have made up my mind that my daughter
shall never marry a man who plays poker"
"She might do great deal worse. sir"
Impossible. Poker has proved the ruin
alton of thousands Of men, and its victims
never recover from the infatuation. She
could never do worse"
Excuse me, sir, but I'm sure she could
She might marry some fellow who thinks he
plays poker"
The old man thought it over-W Washington
Critic
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26
4 Simple Nuisance.

First Omaha Domestic (recently landed
They do have some quare things in this
country.
Second Domestic (ditto)-Indade they do
that. Phat wan did yez see last, Mary?
Its a quare sort Nv a clock the missus put
in me slapin room. 1t makes niver a bit O.
sound all day am all night till about o'clock
in the mornin' and thin it rattles as if 1t wud
take the roof off. It's all / can do to get any
slape after it at all, at all Omaha World
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26

greater weight of logs to break booms and
dams below it. The custom of the lOggers is
to float the logs down the smaller streams
from the logging camps, catch them in the
larger streams at various points. where
they are held by booms across the streams,
and as the winters work in the woods has
but lately ended, the supply of logs in the
booms was at its greatest just when the flood
came. At least 100000 logs will go out
To Sna from the Kennehec alone
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26

sturdy gentleman,
of 50 years, with
snow white hair
and a luxuriant
beard. He is ac-
counted one of the
finest horsenen in
the south, and was
in early life a type
of the d a S h in q,
chivalrous Ken
tuckian. Coming
into the world
about the time
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26
Our Craft in DANGER.

A well known retail merchant was in bad
humor one Monday morning. A friend said
to him: Charley, / am afraid the preaching
yesterday did not 90 you much good" at
did not" was the answer. 'My castor
preached against the follies of fashionable
dress, and most of the ladies of his congrega-
tion are my customers. Dry Goods Chroni-
Gle
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26

camels in Algeria,
the load balanced
in packs on each
side of the hump,
hanging so that the
mass of each weight
was as low as the
center Of gravity;
and this general
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26
HER MAJESTY'S MILITARY CHIEF.

Field Marshal George, Duke of Cambridge,
Commander of the English Army.
Field Marshals have been brought to the
front recently in magazines and newspapers,
on account of European war talk. When
ever rumor of war gets afoat, military Off
GERS have their day at interesting the popu-
lace. In times of peace they fall rather below
their rightful place in popular estimation;
but when the drums beat to arms they are
looked upon as holding the country in the
hollow of their hands.
We have had biographies of Germanys
field marshal, and of Frances and even of
the Sultan's, but until recently nobody has
thought to inquire what sort of a creature
filed this honorable office in her maiesty's
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26

ELECTRIC FREIGHT TRAIN avoided by vary
ing the length of the trestle; the motive power
may be horses, steam or electricity. Whether
this or the Meigs or some other plan will
finally prevail, time and experience must de-
termine; but it is reasonably certain that the
problem of elevated single track railways has
been solved and that in cities at least their
use is to become general.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26
A NEW PROPHET.
This Time a Woman Assumes to Unfold
the Future.
Especial Correspondence

Special Correspondence.
CLEVELAND, May 10.-New creeds generally
burst upon the world with the suddenness Of
meteor. Prophets are born, not made, and
if they can make themselves obnoxious
enough to existing institutions so that they
are assassinated, their success is established.
A prophecies has arisen here who makes
wonderful claims, and church has been
established. The prospects thus far are
brighter than some Of the beginnings of older
systems were.
At the first announcement of the mission
Of the prophecies, on JAM last, thirteen
persons signed the following declaration of
faith:
"We, the undersigned, hereby agree to and
hereby do establish a religious, spiritual
church, known as Our church. the Spiritual
Church of the World in which church are to
be taught each Sabbath, and at such other
times as may be deemed advisable, religious,
spiritual truths, as given to us to expound and
explain by and through the spirit world.
1t is hereby further agreed, by and between
the founders and members of this church,
that no one is to speak in this church unless
he or she, and the spirits controlling them,
recognize the existence of God, a supreme
spirit and of Jesus, His spiritual son; and
whose private and public life conforms with
Gods teachings, as made manifest through
Jesus and taught i'll the Bible, it being the
aim and object of these founders to establish
and maintain a pure and truly religious
church"
The founder Of this church and its prophet
esS is Mrs Emily ! BRIGGS This cOnSti-
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26

and strengthening
the foreign mis-
sions of his church.
Bishop Wilson is
one Of the ablest
and most popular
ministers of the
south. He was
born in Baltimore
in 1884, was edu-
Gated at Columbia
Z college in the Dis
i trict Of Columbia,
studied medicine
for a while and left
that for the min
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26

principle has been SECTION OF RAILWAY.
preserved in the railway. This consists
of one top rail supported by A-shaped
trestles, and a grooved wheel running
thereon in the middle of the car; also
two side rails, or rather guide lines, on
which run two horizontal wheels
as shown in the engraving. III, A-shaped
trestle is made of stout iron flats, which can
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26

PROPOSED MONUMENT TO FATHER SNOW.
Brooklyn Sunday School union. and they as
sisted in organizing the monument associa-
ton, of which John w. Virgins is president
and Edgar Forman secretary. The design of
the monument, as seen in our engraving, is
by Mr.. Henry Baerer. who furnished the de-
sign for the monument of John Howard
Payne in Prospect park. In our presentation
of the building in which the first American
Sunday school was held and of the proposed
monument the reader may see in epitome the
rise and progress of the Sunday school sys-
tenn in America. 1t is wonderful-really
wonderful We are 50 accustomed to it, and
it is so much matter of course with men
and women of this age, that we find it hard
to realize that there are still living in Brook
lyn men and women who helped organize the
first Sunday school in America.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-26

tuition or creed was
dictated Ough
Mrs. Briggs by the
spirits that control
her.
Mrs. Briggs, the
prophecies, W a 5
born near Pitts
burg, and h er
mother and sisters
are still living i'll
that city. She is
not an educated
woman, but she
has a good voice,
land when under the
influence of the
spirits she employs